INNOVATingWhere do you go to swim when it is hot in Manhattan? How about a pool floating in the East River? This is the Plus Pool, a theoretical project gaining funding to become a reality.

Then where do you go when you want more open space in Manhatten? How about underground. The cleverly named Low Line makes use of the abandoned trolley tunnels on the Lower East Side.[rendering by Raad Studio]

Not only is the work of Studio MK27 stunning, but their website is pretty slick too.

This is a beautiful pre-fab home located in Nevada by Nottoscale architects. The location for this house was so remote it was actually pre-fabricated five hours away in Reno, Nevada.[photo by Joe Fletcher]

And last but not least a flickr stream from Chu e Kato of a very unique apartment in Sao Paulo. Don’t just glance over this one, there are some very hot hidden details. Click here for their full flikr stream